desc.go

// Copyright 2016 The Prometheus Authors
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package prometheus

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"sort"
	"strings"

	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"

	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
)

// Desc is the descriptor used by every Prometheus Metric. It is essentially
// the immutable meta-data of a Metric. The normal Metric implementations
// included in this package manage their Desc under the hood. Users only have to
// deal with Desc if they use advanced features like the ExpvarCollector or
// custom Collectors and Metrics.
//
// Descriptors registered with the same registry have to fulfill certain
// consistency and uniqueness criteria if they share the same fully-qualified
// name: They must have the same help string and the same label names (aka label
// dimensions) in each, constLabels and variableLabels, but they must differ in
// the values of the constLabels.
//
// Descriptors that share the same fully-qualified names and the same label
// values of their constLabels are considered equal.
//
// Use NewDesc to create new Desc instances.
type Desc struct {
	// fqName has been built from Namespace, Subsystem, and Name.
	fqName string
	// help provides some helpful information about this metric.
	help string
	// constLabelPairs contains precalculated DTO label pairs based on
	// the constant labels.
	constLabelPairs []*dto.LabelPair
	// VariableLabels contains names of labels for which the metric
	// maintains variable values.
	variableLabels []string
	// id is a hash of the values of the ConstLabels and fqName. This
	// must be unique among all registered descriptors and can therefore be
	// used as an identifier of the descriptor.
	id uint64
	// dimHash is a hash of the label names (preset and variable) and the
	// Help string. Each Desc with the same fqName must have the same
	// dimHash.
	dimHash uint64
	// err is an error that occurred during construction. It is reported on
	// registration time.
	err error
}

// NewDesc allocates and initializes a new Desc. Errors are recorded in the Desc
// and will be reported on registration time. variableLabels and constLabels can
// be nil if no such labels should be set. fqName and help must not be empty.
//
// variableLabels only contain the label names. Their label values are variable
// and therefore not part of the Desc. (They are managed within the Metric.)
//
// For constLabels, the label values are constant. Therefore, they are fully
// specified in the Desc. See the Collector example for a usage pattern.
func NewDesc(fqName, help string, variableLabels []string, constLabels Labels) *Desc {
	d := &Desc{
		fqName:         fqName,
		help:           help,
		variableLabels: variableLabels,
	}
	if help == "" {
		d.err = errors.New("empty help string")
		return d
	}
	if !model.IsValidMetricName(model.LabelValue(fqName)) {
		d.err = fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid metric name", fqName)
		return d
	}
	// labelValues contains the label values of const labels (in order of
	// their sorted label names) plus the fqName (at position 0).
	labelValues := make([]string, 1, len(constLabels)+1)
	labelValues[0] = fqName
	labelNames := make([]string, 0, len(constLabels)+len(variableLabels))
	labelNameSet := map[string]struct{}{}
	// First add only the const label names and sort them...
	for labelName := range constLabels {
		if !checkLabelName(labelName) {
			d.err = fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid label name", labelName)
			return d
		}
		labelNames = append(labelNames, labelName)
		labelNameSet[labelName] = struct{}{}
	}
	sort.Strings(labelNames)
	// ... so that we can now add const label values in the order of their names.
	for _, labelName := range labelNames {
		labelValues = append(labelValues, constLabels[labelName])
	}
	// Validate the const label values. They can't have a wrong cardinality, so
	// use in len(labelValues) as expectedNumberOfValues.
	if err := validateLabelValues(labelValues, len(labelValues)); err != nil {
		d.err = err
		return d
	}
	// Now add the variable label names, but prefix them with something that
	// cannot be in a regular label name. That prevents matching the label
	// dimension with a different mix between preset and variable labels.
	for _, labelName := range variableLabels {
		if !checkLabelName(labelName) {
			d.err = fmt.Errorf("%q is not a valid label name", labelName)
			return d
		}
		labelNames = append(labelNames, "$"+labelName)
		labelNameSet[labelName] = struct{}{}
	}
	if len(labelNames) != len(labelNameSet) {
		d.err = errors.New("duplicate label names")
		return d
	}

	vh := hashNew()
	for _, val := range labelValues {
		vh = hashAdd(vh, val)
		vh = hashAddByte(vh, separatorByte)
	}
	d.id = vh
	// Sort labelNames so that order doesn't matter for the hash.
	sort.Strings(labelNames)
	// Now hash together (in this order) the help string and the sorted
	// label names.
	lh := hashNew()
	lh = hashAdd(lh, help)
	lh = hashAddByte(lh, separatorByte)
	for _, labelName := range labelNames {
		lh = hashAdd(lh, labelName)
		lh = hashAddByte(lh, separatorByte)
	}
	d.dimHash = lh

	d.constLabelPairs = make([]*dto.LabelPair, 0, len(constLabels))
	for n, v := range constLabels {
		d.constLabelPairs = append(d.constLabelPairs, &dto.LabelPair{
			Name:  proto.String(n),
			Value: proto.String(v),
		})
	}
	sort.Sort(labelPairSorter(d.constLabelPairs))
	return d
}

// NewInvalidDesc returns an invalid descriptor, i.e. a descriptor with the
// provided error set. If a collector returning such a descriptor is registered,
// registration will fail with the provided error. NewInvalidDesc can be used by
// a Collector to signal inability to describe itself.
func NewInvalidDesc(err error) *Desc {
	return &Desc{
		err: err,
	}
}

func (d *Desc) String() string {
	lpStrings := make([]string, 0, len(d.constLabelPairs))
	for _, lp := range d.constLabelPairs {
		lpStrings = append(
			lpStrings,
			fmt.Sprintf("%s=%q", lp.GetName(), lp.GetValue()),
		)
	}
	return fmt.Sprintf(
		"Desc{fqName: %q, help: %q, constLabels: {%s}, variableLabels: %v}",
		d.fqName,
		d.help,
		strings.Join(lpStrings, ","),
		d.variableLabels,
	)
}